Comprehensive Neonatal Nursing Care (6th Edition) – PDF

Comprehensive Neonatal Nursing Care (6th Edition) – eBook PDF

The Comprehensive Neonatal Nursing Care, 6th edition (PDF) is an acclaimed neonatal nursing textbook, completely updated to encompass the most current research findings and strategies for providing evidence-based and cost-effective care. It continues to address neonatal care from a pathophysiologic and physiologic perspective, with a major emphasis on nursing management at the bedside and advanced practice level. It examines each neonatal body system and describes evidence-based interventions that assist in understanding the ‘why’ behind various clinical presentations. Integrative management is threaded throughout the textbook along with extensive research findings to support practice strategies and rationales for sound clinical decision-making. Case studies, QSEN competencies, evidence-based practice boxes, and online resources help to amplify and reinforce content.

New to the 6th Edition:

• Maternal-Fetal Units
• Trauma-Informed Care
• Emerging global trends
• Parent perspectives on care
• New palliative care protocols
• Emphasis on neuroprotective factors
• Podcasts from experts in the field
• Video clips regarding parental caregiving
• Updates in Continuous Quality Improvement
• Leadership and cost management of the NICU
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and maternal drug use
• New technologies including neonatal health care simulation
• Substantial revisions to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program
• Genomics and its relationship to precision health prevention of diseases
• Highlighted callouts for Emergency Alert, Quality and Safety Issues, and Family Concerns
• Updates on neonatal care protocols and procedures, new treatments, and new trends in family-centered integrative developmental care

Key Features:

• The relevance of various diagnostic tests
• Integrates quality and safety as per QSEN competencies
• Parent Voices provide a new perspective on neonatal care
• Authored by internationally reputed “mother” of neonatal nursing
• Case studies, parent handouts, evidence-based practice boxes, and online resources
• The complete physiologic and embryologic foundation of each neonatal body system

Review

“This ebook provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery…It includes discussions of contemporary topics of interest, such as genetics, informatics, global health, and family-centered care, which are vital to providers caring for neonates today. The case studies and evidence-based practice dialogues provide great opportunities for further reflection. The ebook is useful to a wide audience in nursing, including graduate and undergraduate nursing students, practicing pediatric and neonatal nurses, and advanced practice nurses who care for neonates.”